"Tom Boellstorff conducted more than two years of fieldwork in Second Life, living among and observing its residents. He conducted his research in exactly the same way anthropologists study cultures and social groups in the so-called real world to explore issues of gender, race, sex, money, conflict and antisocial behavior, the construction of place and time, and the interplay of self and group. Now with a new preface in which the autor places his book in light of hte most recent transformations in online culture, Coming of age in Second Life remains the clasic ethnography of virtual worlds"--Page 4 of cover.